Book Club Night & Community Dinner
April 10th
5pm - 7pm
Golden Campus, Compass Montessori
Join us on April 10th for a Compass Book Club Night at the Golden campus!
The book we’ve chosen is The Anxious Generation. In this digital world, our children are facing new challenges and more anxiety than ever, so we are coming together as a community to read this resource together, and discuss it in a group on April 10th!
Books Available for Checkout! - We have five hard copies of this book on each campus, which are available for parents/guardians to “check out” for a two-week term, if you’d like to read the book for free. Please stop by the front office to sign out a book (first come, first serve).
Community Dinner & Book Club Night Schedule - Our Farm School students will be offering an option community dinner before we begin our book club discussion. Dinner will be served from 5PM - 6PM, and the book club discussion will be from 6PM - 7PM.
Read more below about the book!
“From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the *play-based childhood" began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this "great rewiring of childhood" has interfered with children's social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the "collective action problems" that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes-communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children-and ourselves from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.”
(content above from the book's website)